May 28 (Bloomberg) -- Egypt’s benchmark EGX30 Index fell
1.3 percent to 4,738.10, the lowest level since April 19, at the
2:30 p.m. close in Cairo.

The following shares were active on the Egyptian Exchange.
Stock symbols follow company names.

Commercial International Bank Egypt SAE (COMI EY), Egypt’s
biggest publicly traded lender, declined 2.2 percent to 24.57
Egyptian pounds, the lowest since April 19. Credit Agricole
Egypt (CIEB EY) retreated 3.8 percent, the most since April 8,
to 8.86 pounds. Suez Canal Bank (CANA EY) fell 1.2 percent to
3.97 pounds, the lowest level since Bloomberg started tracking
the data in February 1997. Egypt cut the local-currency reserve
requirement for banks by 2 percentage points to 10 percent, the
second reduction this year, to free up funds for lenders. Banks
have been the biggest buyers of local-currency government debt
since the beginning of last year.